That double-humped triangle that we immediately understand as a heart — or love — appeared as an ideogram stamped on coins as ...

Heart failure sounds alarming—and rightfully so. Yet approximately 6.5 million Americans currently live with this condition, many with the specific variant called systolic heart failure, and a ...

Let’s have a heart-to-heart about your heart. That fist-sized muscle in your chest quietly pumps away, pushing blood through roughly 60,000 miles of blood vessels day and night without a single break.

A century ago, so little was known about heart disease that people who had it resigned themselves to years of bed rest or, worse, an early death. Even less was known about how heart disease affected ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

You can eat heart-healthy foods to improve your cholesterol, blood pressure, and weight. Adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise each week. Get at least seven hours of ...